The Knowhere Guide Explained

The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to British towns. It was originally a guide to the skateboarding scene in the UK.^[1] The Guide was founded in 1994.^[2] It is quoted by British guidebooks, such as Rough Guides, as a recommended source of online information.^{[3] [4] [5]} The guide also included a fictional town known as "Chuffing Hell", which has been mistaken as a real town by commercial web based directories.^[6]

The site's comments about the town of Crawley were seen to be so negative that local MP Laura Moffatt stated, "We should have the ability to take things down."^[7] The site was also blamed for encouraging illegal skateboarding in Halesowen.^[8] As of December 2023, the site is no longer available online.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=47OxwbFaHXcC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA178 Page 176
2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/08/jimmy_wales_wikipedia_listen_up_london_and_learn/ Jimbo Wales: Wikipedia servers in UK? No way, not with YOUR libel law
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=sXrZmU-2TsoC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA22 Rough Guide to England
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=AOt1Hb8MOQUC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA22 Rough Guide to Britain
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=liQ6NSbvomwC&dq=Knowhere+guide&pg=PA23 The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=CiO5JtP171oC&dq=%22knowhere+guide%22&pg=PA514 Page 514
7. http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/local/website-used-to-slate-crawley-1-979306 Website used to slate Crawley
8. http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/4558654.print/ Cheeky skateboarders snub official skatepark